Reading Donald Trump A Parallax Vie of the Campaign and Early Presidency [Hardcover]

This book provides a scholarly assessment and analysis of the Trump campaign and early presidency. This assessment and analysis is important not only to help provide some coherence to the turbulent and unpredictable character of Trumpism, but to contribute to establishing a scholarly foundation for future works that will provide assessments of the Trump presidency in its mid and later stages. Given the divisive and destructive capacity of Trumpism and its political and social implications both domestically and internationally, understanding the distinctive political phenomenon of Trumpism is necessary if resistance to this transformative moment in American political history is to be successful. This book collects a series of short scholarly contributions on various themes related to Trumpism by scholars from disciplines in both the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Table of Contents

 

Notes on contributors

 

1.      Introduction: The Emergence of Americas Trump and Trumpism

Jeremy Kowalski

 

2.      Gender and identity in the jigsaw puzzle of Trumps zero sum politics

Margaret Walton-Roberts

 

3.       Trumpolect: Donald Trumps Distinctive Discourse and its Functions

Andrew McMurry

 

4.       Donald Trumps Wall of Whiteness